Lack of Disaster Recovery Planning is a sure fire way to shorten your career. We'll spare you the usual "ounce of prevention" speech, and just suffice it to say that you don't want to wait until the
last minute on this one. Even if you think you have a good plan, reviewing it now and then is a great idea. Here's a handful of great resources to help you plan.

Resources

DisasterPlan.com
Resources for Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery. Includes sample plans and the Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages Online Edition, a database of over 2500 vendors, providing services and products to help you plan your response, manage your response, and recover from a disaster.

Disaster
Readiness Scorecard
Measures best practice disaster readiness. Shows how you compare
with peer companies.
There are separate scorecards for Executves (10 questions) and
IT/IS Professionals (20 questions); choose the one that's right
for you, or try them both! Source: DLTtape.com

Disaster Recovery Journal
A free magazine dedicated to Disaster Recovery. Subscribers also have free access to the article archive on the site. A must read and one of the best resources available for Disaster Recovery. LabMice Favorite!

Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages
The Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages OnLine edition is a database of over 2500 vendors, providing services and products to help you plan your response, manage your response, and recover from a disaster. If you need to find a product or service pertaining to any aspect of disaster
planning and recovery, for as little as $98, you can subscribe to our OnLine version, allowing you to "drill-down" for information in any of five categories. An example is shown in Section I below. Or, as a subscriber, you can drill down for information in all five
categories, and use our advanced search engine.

FEMA
The official home page of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Journal of Business Continuity
A free online journal that contains authoritative articles on the subject of business continuity as well as being an interactive forum for discussion. All subscribers can e-mail contributions, questions and statements

Create
a Disaster Emergency Plan 1-2-3
Any type of a disaster (natural or manmade) can bring business to a halt if you're not
prepared. However, you can take three steps now to make sure
your data center's resources will continue to function during
and after a major disaster. Source: EarthWeb (Dec 21,
2000)

Disaster Recovery Planning
A sample recovery outline from the Computer Security Administration at the University of Toronto. A great reference if you need assistance in creating one for your organization.

Contingency Planning Outline
A brief outline of a DR plan as an example to convey the typical content of a detailed contingency plan. The format will likely vary for each organization. Components may be combined in lists, matrices or charts. Not all components will apply to all organizations. Source: Kansas
Department of Administration

DRJ Sample Recovery Plan
A free outline, with access to the full plan for subscribers to Disaster Recovery Journal (The subscription is free.) Source: DRJ.com

MIT Business Continuity Plan
This is an external release of the MIT Business Continuity Plan.
For information on the plan or Business Continuity Planning at MIT, call Jerry Isaacson MIT Information Security Office at (617) 253-1440 or send e-mail to gii@mit.edu

Plan Writing Tutorial
Have you been charged with creating or re-working your company's disaster recover plan? This informative article will walk you through all the steps necessary to ensure your plan is strong and successful. Source: DLT.com

UW Madison and UW Wisconsin Sample Library Disaster Recovery Plan
This document outlines recovery plans for the UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee Library systems managed by the Library and Information Retrieval Applications (LIRA) staff. The purpose of this plan is to ensure that critical operations can resume or continue normal processing after a
hardware or software failure.

Backups and Disaster Recovery
Great primer that stresses the value of backups, risks, backup methods, devices and media, scheduling, media rotation, what and how to back up your data, and on how to make boot disks. Source: PCGuide.com

SANS Network Security Roadmap
Hacker-proofing, advance planning before they hit you - A Computer Security Roadmap
Written for UNIX Admins, but plenty of useful information for everyone.

Smooth Moves
Relocating a data center can be enough of a challenge; doing so with minimal business disruption demands good luck and great planning. Some of the most successful moves have been little more than activations of customized versions of the operations' disaster recovery plan. Source: Rothstein.com

Aver Drivetronics Data Recovery
Aver Drivetronics has been in
the hard drive business since 1979, making them one of the
most successful and experienced hard drive data recovery houses
in the world. Their data recovery centers are equipped with
class 100 cleanrooms, servo writers, and custom software to
ensure the safe recovery of your hard drive's data. They
specialize in repairing damaged data caused by Hardware Failure,
Virus Contamination, and User Error

Data
Recovery LabsData Recovery Labs provides data recovery service and data recovery services specializing in the recovery of data from crashed and non-functioning media. Experienced in multiple operating systems.
DRL is one of only eight Data Recovery operations in North
America with a Clean Room which has been inspected and approved
by major Hard Disk manufacturers.

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